Closed New York church finds new life as center for farmworkers
Agricultural laborers often work long hours without overtime or paid days off. They're part of running a new center in Long Island to advocate for their rights.
For a long time the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, New York, has partnered with a nonprofit agency that gives voice to the concerns of the region’s farm laborers.
Now the agency—Rural and Migrant Ministry—and the diocese are working with other faith-based partners, including the Presbytery of Long Island, to turn a church that closed into a center for farmworkers, many of them Hispanic.
The Center of Alliance, Solidarity and Accompaniment will be located at Grace Episcopal Church in Riverhead, New York, which closed early in 2017.
